Test 10 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…

Did the chamberlains just hold the train, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chamberlains · What happens: hold · To what, where: train

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1683 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor parades in nothing» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chamberlains	det
3	chamberlains	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 train	det
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hold	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · do-support	the chamberlains	the train					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They held up nothing at all, playing the part of servants carrying a long, heavy train

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 held	compound:prt
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 held	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 nothing	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 held	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 part	det
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 playing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 servants	case
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 part	nmod
13	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 playing	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 train	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 train	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 long	punct
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 train	amod
18	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold up	past	They	nothing	all	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	play	gerund	They not said here	the part of servants		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	carry	gerund	They not said here	a long heavy train		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme

Option 2

They gripped nothing, pretending hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gripped	nsubj
2	gripped	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 gripped	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pretending	punct
5	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gripped	advcl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 pretending	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	past	They	nothing					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
2	pretend	gerund	They not said here					hard property	tree rules

Option 3

They held up nothing, playing the part of servants carrying a long train of silk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 held	compound:prt
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 held	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 playing	punct
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 held	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 servants	case
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 part	nmod
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 servants	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 train	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 train	amod
14	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carrying	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 silk	case
16	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 train	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	past	They	nothing	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	play	gerund	They not said here	the part of servants	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme
3	carry	gerund	servants not said here	a long train of silk	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They held up nothing, playing the part

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 held	compound:prt
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 held	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 playing	punct
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 held	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 part	det
8	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	past	They	nothing					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	play	gerund	They not said here	the part					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme

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